[Midnight Diamonds Vented Bridle Test]

slides, reverse flight, glide?

[Line/kite ratio increase]

Nothing bad can happen once you are comfortable flying the kite inverted/ in reverse.

practice a few times each session with the kite inverted.  Take off with it in this orientation, fly to waist high, stop and return to the ground.  keep doubling up the distant traveled in reverse, go straight up in reverse from resting on the ground SLOW.  When you can make this look effortless and back all the way up (to the top of the window) you will be in control.  That could take many hours of practice until it looks like the kite is riding on railroad tracks.  In low wind conditions this may mean you are briskly walking backwards also instead of stationary!

If a quad will not fly in reverse there a couple of unused strings affixed to the bridle.  

Tune the reverse (in more & more) until the kite will back up from an inverted position, when starting off as sitting on the ground. Either the top leaders get longer or the bottoms get shorter,... or both need to move!

Hold the handles softly, like you were planning to drop them.  Make tiny movements with your handles and move your feet to add to (or diminish!) the wind's energy so your reverse flight is silky smooth.

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Don't have a name for that version, Lam uses it, or some personalized variation hidden under a tarp, his kite will flick-flak on the ground reliably, powerfully too!

but flat spins type movements are greatly diminished,

the slop or wiggle is what I want removed, no oversteer either, examine the differences, they are profound btwn the two

[Custom build]

without the weight of the mesh material, the kite can fly despite having almost no sail area available for lift.  With light wind skills honed properly you can fly it down to single digit speeds (but a steady breeze is necessary).

A big wind you ask?,... well folks acquire this kite for exactly that reason.  How high do you want to push it,... FINE!  It will work for you then too.

I just can't justify the cost for so little material, it's almost the same figure as a shook mesh, given a choice I'd take one of those instead knowing I'd be abusing it in a steady 40 MPH howl.